Ostrogski Castle
| Ostrogski Castle | ||
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 Main facade |
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| Creation time : | 1681 | |
| Castle type : | lock | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Place: | Warsaw | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 14 '11.1 " N , 21 ° 1' 22.2" E | |
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The Ostrogski Palace in Warsaw (Polish: Zamek Ostrogskich ) was built according to a design by the architect Tylman van Gameren in the second half of the 17th century and is located at 41 Tamka Street in the Powiśle district . It is located opposite the Chopin Center in Warsaw above the Mother House of the Sisters of Mercy .
The building was erected over a square bastion that protrudes from the steep slope inclined towards the Vistula and forms a terrace. The bastion was built by Prince Janusz Ostrogski and ceded to the Polish branch of the Dönhoff family , who sold it in 1681 to the Crown Vice Chancellor Jan Gniński . Jan Gniński asked the architect Tylman van Gameren to build a palace. The palace changed hands several times, was rebuilt and extended, and served as barracks, military hospital and orphanage. In 1858 the Warsaw Conservatory was established in the palace. The palace was destroyed during the Second World War and rebuilt in 1949–1954. The 19th century addition was removed and the palace built according to the original project.
The building houses the Chopin Museum . Some of the objects in the collection come from Chopin's estate from his last apartment at Place Vendome No. 12 in Paris. His piano student Jane Stirling bought it from his sister in Paris after Chopin's death. Stirling had kept the estate in Scotland for ten years in a room dedicated to Chopin and then left it - she died unmarried - to Chopin's mother in Poland. In 1863 part of the collection was again the victim of a Russian attack on Warsaw.
On the occasion of Chopin's jubilee year 2010, the palace was thoroughly renovated and the previously neglected rooms in the bastion under the terrace were set up as a concert hall.
The legend of the golden duck is associated with the bastion. An enchanted princess in the shape of a golden duck swam in the pond under the bastion. A brave shoemaker's apprentice disenchanted it and received a hundred ducats for it. The chatty boy revealed the secret - and the money suddenly disappeared.
See also
Web links
- Official website of the Chopin Museum
- Treasures of Warsaw on-line: Fryderyk Chopin Museum - Ostrogski Castle
- Official website of the Chopin Institute
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Burger: Frédéric Chopin - A life chronicle in pictures and documents, Hirmer, Munich 1990